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...whine about personal problems on Twitter, and we can forward a personal email to anyone we want in a second. We are our own paparazzi, and we have trampled the entire concept of privacy. We don’t only willingly reveal ourselves, but we have also come to expect it and desire it of others.This voyeuristic desire cannot help but influence our attitudes towards the returning of war dead. Do we really have the right to a moment that is so personally devastating to the friends and families of those lost? All egoism aside, would you really want...
...they puke, and there is little to distinguish Eisenberg’s awkward and soft-spoken virgin from that of Michael Cera (other than the fact that Eisenberg has a car to drunkenly drive into the neighbor’s hedge). When Mottola presents a 22-year-old who expects an expensive summer vacation and four years of graduate school on his parent’s dime while he gets high and drunk daily, it is easier to feel compassion for the parents.The movie heads downhill when Em finds out that James kissed an attractive co-worker, James discovers...
...Raised by liberal parents in the Bay Area, Breaus said he knew he wasn’t homophobic. But having to kiss a guy challenged his self-conception in ways he didn’t expect. “I would have a visceral reaction where it just didn’t feel good,” he said...
...performers through the OFA Dance Program. It connects deeply to scholars in the Music Department. “In short, it demonstrates the creative power and insight that this university can bring to bear when unique resources in various pockets of the campus reach out, connect and collaborate. I expect that there will be much more of this type of thing in years to come.”For those curious enough to venture outside of the Yard, a weeklong Boston-wide Ballets Russes festival running from May 16 through 23 will include a concert by the Boston Pops, exhibitions...
...government has warned that it doesn't expect to provide "safe, effective, convenient and affordable" health care to all citizens until 2020. Over the first three years of the plan, more than 60% of the costs will be borne by provincial and local governments. That burden will increase after 2011, meaning poorer western regions may be slower to achieve the blueprint's goals. "Health care reform is a long-term process," deputy finance minister Wang Jun told a news conference April 8. "It is impossible to invest the money today and make tangible process tomorrow...